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#Dresdencodex is a fucked up name for a Mayan manuscript, nevertheless this is amazing
Like the name of #mountrushmore which was... is... six grandfathers mountain 😅
To me, what's also amazing is there are researchers who can kinda read it and know about the #soloreclipse dates
@coreyspowell
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Most of the intellectual artifacts...treated either as curiosities or as trash
Probably 99% of the #Yucatec #Maya books were burned by the religious 🔥 invaders
NEW: Language barriers obstruct access to lifesaving information for San Francisco's Indigenous Mayans, fueling the fentanyl epidemic. On this episode of "Civic," we discuss the profound impact of linguistic disparities, the need for culturally competent drug health services and grassroots efforts shaping this critical issue.
#SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoNews #Podcast #LatinX #Yucatec #Mayans #DrugOverdose #Fentanyl #Drugs
#IndigenousLanguages #MexicanLanguages
Many indigenous #Mexican languages use the so-called “numeral classifiers” - similar to those existing in Mandarin Chinese and Japanese - which convey the form, position or nature of the counted object. The chart below shows some of the (still) used numeral classifiers in #Yucatec #MayaLanguage, although many of them are often replaced by two general markers: “túul” for animate nouns and “p’éel” for inanimate objects.
Today #January6 marks the 481th anniversary of the founding of my hometown in #Mexico.
#Mérida, #Yucatán was founded on top of an ancient #Mayan city called T'ho. It is the capital of a State and a region with a very distinctive culture within Mexico, with its own language (#Yucatec #Maya), history, food, traditions and musical style, apart from a strong accent in Spanish. It's a tropical (and very hot!) beauty in the middle of the Mayan world.
In k'áatech, Jo'!
0 to 10 in #Yucatec #Maya (the language spoken by the #Talocans in #Marvel 's "Wakanda Forever" film) and K'iche' (the most spoken of the Mayan #languages of #Guatemala ). Yucatec is the mother tongue of 800,000 people in #Yucatan, #Mexico , whilst there are currently more than 1 Million speakers of K'iche' .
@linguistics #Mexicanlanguages
Many #Mexican languages are #tonal (particularly the #Otomanguean #languages of the State of #Oaxaca and Central #Mexico). Out of 32 different #Maya languages, only 3 or 4 have developed tone as a fixed characteristic, the most prominent one being #Yucatec Maya, spoken by 800,000 people in the #Yucatan Peninsula. Yucatec Maya has different vowel qualities (short, long, reaticulated and glottalized) but only long vowels are affected by tone as shown below:
Comparison of #numbers between #Yucatec #Maya (Maaya t'aan) and #Huastec (Tének), spoken in North-Eastern Mexico. Huastec is the only Mayan language found outside the core Mayan region (South #Mexico, #YucatanPeninsula, #Guatemala, #Belize & #Honduras). Geographically speaking Huastec is more than 800 kms. away from its closest related #languages.
#idiomamaya #indigenouslanguages #Mexicanlanguages #huasteco #mayayucateco #linguistics
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